Archive for July, 2004

Aug 16 is the date that Call for Help returns in Canada. And to make that deadline, we’ll be shooting 15 shows this next week starting 10 AM EDT on Aug 3 in Studio D at G4techtvCanada. I think it will be magic. When I’m not wrangling the studio lab computers with my two tech […]

We shot a couple of Call for Help promos Friday afternoon and our producer Vac volunteered his hair for one of the spots . (The girls in the office said he needed a hair cut anyway.) In the spot Vac plays a disparaging Canadian hoser who gets a quick haircut from Leo. You’ll be able […]

Just completed two days of rehearsals (Jul 22 and 23) with Leo and Monica (pix) and now comes the last week of pre-production until we shoot the first 15 episodes.
We’re prepping to do all the usual calls (

Leo and consulting producer George Crowe are in Toronto this week, so if you’re a Torontonian you may see them around town. We’ll be making the final preparations to shoot the first month of shows in early August.

It’s the very beginning of 802.11n, but now we know they are working on a version of Wi-Fi that will be fast enought to carry multiple streams of HiDef video - ie 100+ Mbps of thruput. Check it out:
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3379371

Well I’m into my second week of pre-production at Call for Help 2.0 (as we call it unofficially).
Fantastic group of people. Leo has been awesome. Great new set. And his first promo for the show has been airing on CNN here in Canada. We’ll be shooting the first shows in early August in our […]

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